James Debono

James Debono

James Debono is MaltaToday's chief reporter on environment, planning and land use issues, and one of the newspaper's main political analysts. Apart from blogging regularly on politics, James Debono won the IĠM national press awards' environmental reporter of the year in 2011 and in 2025. Debono coordinates MaltaToday's surveys, which has conducted polls on all electoral appointments since 2008. He read history and obtained his Masters' degree from the University of Malta, and in the past worked for TV production house Where's Everybody before joining MaltaToday in 2005. A co-founder of Moviment Graffitti and active in Moviment ghall-Ambjent, he served as a media officer for Alternattiva Demokratika - the Green Party.

Articles by this author
Lidl’s Fgura plans hit brick wall
Planning
Lidl’s plans for a new supermarket on the site of a scrap-yard along Triq id-Dejma in Fgura going back to 2016, seems to be heading towards a refusal after the Planning...
Sant Antnin water treatment plant to re-open in 2020
National
The Sant Antnin plant is now destined to outlive its original purpose and will now serve to boost the WSC sewage handling capacity